It's bigger than both of us 1998

IT'S BIGGER THAN BOTH OF US COMPILATION OF NZ SINGLES 1979-82 RELEASED 1988

It's Bigger Than Both of Us: N.Z. Singles 1979-82

It's Bigger Than the Both of Us is two discs worth of rare singles and stray tracks from New Zealand's often overlooked underground from 1979 to 1981 with releases not only from the better known Flying Nun label but also from Propeller, Ripper, and R.E.M. Featuring some legendary tracks from the Clean, Toy Love, Tall Dwarves, and the Swingers this is essential listening for anyone interested in the development of New Zealand rock.

Its Bigger Than Both of Us (Simon Grigg 2003) was a labour of love that I put together back in 1988, with a great deal of encouragement and help from my good friend Simon Baeyertz (who was a little miffed that he is no longer credited as co-compiler on the CD issue as he was on the vinyl, this was not a slight as this album could not have existed without his massive input - he is more correctly credited as executive producer or something similar, but credit is due) at Festival Records New Zealand. The idea was to gather together a bunch of the classic indie singles that dominated New Zealand's rock'n'roll scene between 1979 and 1982, the post-punk era.

It was a period when New Zealand music took off, and especially the recording of the New Zealand music, done, predominately, by indies, came to life after being moribund for most of the seventies. At the time, the quoted figure was that there were more New Zealand singles released in 1981 than there was in the whole of the last decade. I don't know about that, but there were so many bloody great singles and most were due to be lost forever. In January 1980, there were almost no independent labels recording the hundreds of bands in the nation. That next year and a half saw Ripper, Propeller, Reaction, REM and at least a dozen others. In late 1981 the, to be giant, Flying Nun also arrived and from all these sources, literally scores of singles were flying out of the garages and studios all over the country. BTHBOU was / is our attempt to preserve some of these gems.

Simon Grigg 2003

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